After a cluster of infections was reported on campus, university students in hazmat suits lined up in the cold and dark waiting to be transferred.
China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant. Residents are required to remain at home, with one family member permitted to venture out to buy food and other necessities every two days. All residents must undergo three rounds of mass testing, while non-essential businesses have been closed and transport links suspended. The latest lockdowns, which also include Yucheng with 500,000 people in the eastern province of Shandong, show China is sticking to the draconian approach to the pandemic it has enforced for most of the past two years, despite some earlier indications hdthat authorities would be implementing more targeted measures.
